TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped

Watching Versailles and Jacques is the first death I've been even a little bit sad about. Good night, sweet secret sword-prosthetic handed prince.

"You can do hard things!" yeah but I don't want to. I just want to chill.

this uh, doesn't seem sustainable arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...

really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)

Need to feel some positive emotions today? This thread is for you!

"And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

It shows how astroturfed the whole thing is. Right wing political projects are basically never grassroots. Rich assholes have to fund groups to blast these beliefs into people's heads non-stop for years just to get enough support for it.

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” Karis Nemik

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."

Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher. 111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. She never got the justice she deserved www.fox23.com/news/mother-...

One of the myriad reasons I despise Waymos is that they are *deeply* antisocial. Instead of building safe and reliable mass transit, we're given hermetic pods that increase congestion and cause wear and tear on the infrastructure we all pay for.

This is gaming at its best: creating a safe virtual space to bring players together and help build stronger communities.

Seriously, if you don't want to support Amazon, good for you, but if you're having trouble finding an alternate link to FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE AUTHOR, ask. Ask the author directly! Don't just steal their work!

So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.

That's what I'd like to think! Starbucks workers are on strike! Don't cross the picket line and support them at the link below! Tip your baristas! www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!

This is a big deal bc insurance is one of the strongest levers for changing policy and behavior (the other being taxes). AI companies may have so much money they can self insure. But their enterprise customers don’t and this will cause them think twice about how they adopt and deploy AI.

When insurance wants to avoid covering something, you know it’s a problem.

I’d suggest offering more than one thing- hey can I get you something? We have beer, coke, lemonade and water!

Fellas, are you worried the other guys aren’t mocking your grilling skills enough?

Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals. Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.

I think Mamdani did an amazing job with Trump, he was charming & warm but also disciplined, on message. I also think it’s a mistake to think there’s a cheat code with Trump, that when he abuses someone, it’s the target’s fault… you cd do everything “right” & the man can still explode

As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another

You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again. Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students. #Critical_AI_Literacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...

Those cowards are the reason hateful people are allowed to thrive. Materially supporting hate is wrong. Allowing hate to flourish because you’re “forced to make uncomfortable choices” is wrong. Good luck with your next sales quarter, coward. Ask Target how that’s going.

And 4: your customer base is now full of hateful people. Transphobia on its own is extremely wrong, but also once you hate one group of people, it spreads. And cowards like the kind of person who signs up for some Harry Potter thing and whines about supporting the art and not the artist or whatever

1. You will have sold your soul 2. Any time you ever try to do Pride events from here on, you are going to get rightfully roasted 3. You know that you are enabling JKR to bankroll evil, right? This isn’t hypothetical harm, this is money going into making sure vulnerable kids get hurt.

Okay. Indie brands. We have to talk. That Harry Potter collab is a great way to ensure that if your little company survives the backlash, the customers you have left will be the kind of people who buy TERF shit out of spite or out of being completely checked out. Sure, their money spends. But.

You can say ICE is being used as a political cudgel to demolish democracy, or you can recognize that’s all they ever have been since their inception.

How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.

Medical misogyny makes woowoo happen just as surely as overuse of antibiotics makes MRSA happen.

So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

Looking for trans VAs for the Chorus! Early to mid 20s, anyone regardless of gender can audition The Chorus is a group of 3 or 4 young people who adore The Doe, following her around Audition document: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #castingcall #audiodrama

Great thread, but I feel like we don't talk enough about mixtapes as a medium of communication of non romantic ideas. E.g. emotional support mixtapes. And "Check *this* out" themed mixtapes in an era when new artist discovery could be *very* difficult

Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab. It went sideways real fast.

🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert

Oh apparently there's another shitty gross article about shitty gross people but I'm just gonna stay right here

I mean no one should use Twitter anymore for real but it is still very funny that Elon is doxxing the russian bots

This is quite possibly the most damaging headline I think I’ve ever seen from the @nytimes.com It’s not merely “CDC’s position,” it is established scientific fact Portraying RFK Jr as a brave, swashbuckling maverick—out there challenging “scientific orthodoxy”—is astoundingly irresponsible

85% below average rainfall, the lowest level in a century. 10-ish million people potentially on the move. “severe ecological strain” The “It’s fine” gif doesn’t really say it loud enough this time.

STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. you must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.

The cyberpunk dystopia is allowed to be fun sometimes, as a treat